Hidden inside ching sit ching and ginch, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ching and ginch tie for the highest Scrabble score from ching at 11 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ching: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ching itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ching and ginch, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ching produces 3 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: chin and inch, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ching turns up 7 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chi, hic, and ich, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi and in. For points, the strongest play is hi — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
ching is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
ching is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ching unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ching and ginch, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ching earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in ching produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.